18 months old & photo fun

I like to take pictures. And, of course, my favorite subject is my kid. He turned 18 months old this month, and in the last few days I've had a chance to get some great photos of him just being him.

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Most of these photos were taken at an area park where I got together with some other ladies who also like to take pictures. We had a good time -- the kids played while the Moms chased them around with cameras. (I took a lot of the pictures in the slideshow above, but not all of them.) I took the photo of Nolan with the dogs in my own yard, and the rest of the pictures I shot at a recent visit to a fire station with my local Mom's group.

You'll notice that there are a couple of cool pictures of fire trucks, but none of my usually brave little boy on a fire truck. Why? Because whenever I tried to take his picture with one of the trucks, this is what happened:



He loves big, noisy trucks at a distance, but I guess up close they're a little intimidating when you're not quite 3 feet tall.